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Animal to animal (Posted on 2015-03-27)

By removing a single letter from the word fox one gets a name of another animal i.e. ox.

Can you accomplish a similar task (i.e. convert one animal into another)
by removing two consecutive letters? ?
By removing three consecutive letters? ?
Four ?
Five ?

See The Solution Submitted by Ady TZIDON

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Easy Threes and Fours

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Many types of aquatic animal are named after land animals

three letters

sea leopard

sea wasp

sea lion

etc.

four letters

elephant seal

wolffish

butterflyfish

cowfish

etc.

Posted by Jer on 2015-03-27 10:23:46

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